Procurement

The Bid Procurement tool within FMS aligns your company’s shipping needs with
the lane preferences and capacity of your carriers, and it does this in a way that
accomplishes much more than simply forcing carriers to submit low-ball rates.
By optimizing the freight procurement process, FMS can offer your carriers the
best possible lanes for their business. This boosts efficiency for your carriers and
saves them money, thus enabling them to offer you better rates than ever before.
It’s a win-win solution. You get better rates, and your carriers gain the opportunity
to win freight awards that will enhance or complement their existing lanes and
operations.

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Integration

A shipper’s ERP system will transmit orders electronically through an interface to
the Order Management component of McLeod FMS. These are shippable orders,
some of which will be of sufficient quantity to become truckload shipments. These
truckload-ready orders will be sent on to Load Execution. The other orders will be
sent to Mode Optimization, where the software relies on preset business-defined
parameters to find the best method of delivery for each order.

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Optimization

McLeod FMS optimizes mode selection, so money is no longer wasted shipping
freight in ways that don’t fit the best choice for each order. Mode optimization
makes it possible to compare dedicated, continuous moves, pool points, and
mode-shift LTL to truckload. The tool can compare costs with requirements and
run “what if” scenarios to see which option is the best fit for each shipment. This
further reduces overall costs for each customer.

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Load Execution

If you’re shipping large quantities of freight, and you’re still handling
much of the work manually, your staff is spending hours upon hours on
tasks that can be automated. Not only does the FMS Load Execution tool
dramatically reduce the amount of labor required to manage your freight,
it also diminishes errors and supports your efforts to manage proactively.
You gain the ability to prevent problems before they occur, instead of
constantly cleaning up the mess after it’s too late.

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Power Broker

PowerBroker is the most advanced software solution available for freight brokers. PowerBroker offers a fully integrated freight brokerage operations management system and a complete accounting software solution all in one package, from one company.

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Contact McLeod Software

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Software would like to hear from you.